Innovative plant-based ingredients producer – Roquette has announced investment of €40 million in its Vic-sur-Aisne facility in France – aiming to increase its pea processing capacity and respond to a fast-growing global demand for pea protein.

The new expansion is expected to establish the company as a global food, nutrition and health leader. Continue reading →

Hungarian firm – Tisza-TK Projekt Kft – a major food and ingredients producer – is building a new plant that will process over half a million tonnes of maize per year by 2018.

The new plant will be built in Tiszapuspoki town, 134 km (83.26 miles) east of Budapest. With a capacity to produce an annual 230,000 tonnes of isosugar – a glucose-fructose syrup used in the food industry – as well as starch, alcohol and feed components, the new plant is expected to be built at a cost of 145 million euro ($161.39 million). Continue reading →